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Mason White
Mason White
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Mason White

M.T. White has been programming since the age of 12. His fascination with robotics flourished when he was a child programming microcontrollers such as Arduinos. M.T. currently holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics, a master's degree in soft ware engineering, and is currently working on an MBA in IT project management. M.T. is currently working as a soft ware developer for a major US defense contractor and is an adjunct CIS instructor at ECPI University. His background mostly stems from the automation industry where he programmed PLCs and HMIs for many different types of applications. M.T. has programmed many different brands of PLCs over the years and has developed HMIs using many different tools.
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Testing the application

Now that we have the code implemented, we can run a few test cases to see if the code works as expected. If you look at the code, we have an oven_temp variable that in real life would be tied to some type of thermal sensor. For our purposes, we are going to control it manually to simulate the conditions inside the oven. In real-world automation programming, this is a common technique. We don’t always want to heat the oven to the target temperature until we know for sure the software is working; simply writing values to that variable will suffice. With all that being said, we can now start testing the application by testing out the door.

Testing the door lock

We are going to start with the most basic and safety-critical part: testing the door. Essentially, we want to ensure the door is locking and unlocking properly. For this, we are going to use the following test case:

Figure 15.15 – Test case

Figure 15.15 – Test case

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Mason White

M.T. White has been programming since the age of 12. His fascination with robotics flourished when he was a child programming microcontrollers such as Arduinos. M.T. currently holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics, a master's degree in soft ware engineering, and is currently working on an MBA in IT project management. M.T. is currently working as a soft ware developer for a major US defense contractor and is an adjunct CIS instructor at ECPI University. His background mostly stems from the automation industry where he programmed PLCs and HMIs for many different types of applications. M.T. has programmed many different brands of PLCs over the years and has developed HMIs using many different tools.
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